Other Names:  Common Peach, Peppermint Stick Peach

Description:

A highly ornamental tree for landscape use, featuring stunning soft pink, red and white, uniquely striped flowers on the same tree; great as an eye catching accent

Ornamental Features

Peppermint Flowering Peach features showy clusters of fragrant white flowers with red overtones and pink stripes along the branches in early spring, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds before the leaves. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Peppermint Flowering Peach is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects
• Disease

Peppermint Flowering Peach is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Vertical Accent

Planting & Growing

Peppermint Flowering Peach will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.